The LSTC is a national tax planning and client-counseling competition designed to more closely reflect everyday tax practice than traditional moot court competitions. The semi-final and final rounds of the 2009 LSTC took place in January of 2010 in San Antonio, Texas during the Section of Taxation Midyear Meeting. ...

“We were pleased this year to have more teams than ever before competing,” said Stuart M. Lewis, chair of the ABA Tax Section. “Forty-three J.D. teams and 26 LL.M. teams submitted their solutions to a challenging, complex tax planning problem that involved individual and business entity issues,” he said.